Aston Martin to hold internal inquiry after 'sockpuppet PR firm' row
by Jillian Ambrose from Environment | The Guardian on (#5B6EB)
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The boss of Aston Martin has called for an internal investigation after the British carmaker was accused of using a sockpuppet PR firm" to legitimise a report which used data criticised as misleading to discredit electric vehicles.
The new chief executive, Tobias Moers, said Aston Martin's involvement in the widely discredited report began before he joined the company last August, and that he was not aware of its contents before it was published.
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